Consulting services in sport
Sport is my love and passion. The experience gained for many years allowed to comprehensively understand the specificity of sport. My lawyer’s office is only one of a few Polish lawyer’s offices specializing in sports law that has dedicated services for athletes, coaches, sports clubs and sports associations. Security and trust is a foundation of every cooperation. Just like in sport, there is no chance for success in provision of legal services without these two elements. We can achieve it together.
"Sport is a department of toys in human life".
Howard Cosell
unique experience on the market in the field of sport
personalized offer for entities of sports market
completed postgraduate studies FIFA/CIES Programme in Sport Management
over a dozen scientific publications within the scope of sports law
over a dozen lecture during all-Poland sports scientific conferences
We have a unique offer for specific groups:
Our offer for athletes
The lawyer’s office, within the scope of sports law, gives comprehensive advices to athletes in all aspects of provision of sports work by them, as well as in the field of everyday problems, among others, in the cases concerning assets, family or inheritance cases. Our legal services for athletes include all stages of their career – from the juniors signing their first contracts to successful athletes achieving international successes. Our experience allows to effectively protect the interests of an athlete. We support athletes competing in all sports disciplines.
Managing partner – lawyer Michał Matuszak is a Doctor of Juridical Science. He has many years of scientific and professional experience within the scope of sports law. He is an author of a doctoral dissertation entitled „Sports employment agreement” and various scientific monographs about the issues of sports law. He has unique knowledge and competences within the scope of representing entities in the proceedings connected with broadly understood sport, among others, before the courts of arbitration for sport, in the disciplinary proceedings and proceedings related to doping controls of athletes.
For our most demanding clients, we have prepared a private lawyer offer, that is, provision of comprehensive legal services in all fields of human life. These services are provided under individual conditions and with the maintenance of the highest confidentiality standards. These services are fully provided in platinum standard of service.
THE SCOPE OF OUR LEGAL SERVICES INCLUDES PARTICULARLY:
- representing competitors before the common courts of law of all instances, before administrative courts, before disciplinary bodies of sports associations and before arbitration courts, including before the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne (CAS) and Arbitration Tribunal for Sport in the Polish Olympic Committee;
- preparing sports contracts and any agreements concluded in connection with professional practicing of sport;
- negotiating conditions of sports contracts, rights to image and sponsorship agreements;
- legal consulting services within the scope of possibility of obtaining sports scholarships and sports licenses;
- protection of personal rights, counteracting discrimination;
- comprehensive help in counteracting improper processing of personal data of athletes;
- participation in the meetings, negotiations, trials and provision of legal advices;
- consulting services and representations in the private matters of athletes, among others, in the field of family law (divorces, separations, cases connected with minor children), in the field of inheritance law (confirmation of acquisition of inheritance, cases related to the wills, inheritance divisions), criminal law (offences and crimes committed by the athletes) or civil law (signed agreements, financial liabilities, vindication of claims).
Our offer for coaches and personal trainers
The lawyer’s office within the scope of sports law gives comprehensive advices to coaches in all aspects of provision of services. Modern sport is more and more professional and complicated, therefore, it is impossible for athletes or sports clubs to achieve greatest successes without the support of coaching staff. We provide comprehensive legal support of coaches, particularly within the scope of their employment and enforcement by them of liabilities that were not received.
Due to growing popularity and market importance of personal trainers, we have prepared a special offer for them. We prepare documents related to establishment of economic activity, agreements with clients and represent in court disputes.
THE SCOPE OF OUR LEGAL SERVICES INCLUDES PARTICULARLY:
- representing coaches before the common courts of law of all instances, before administrative courts, before disciplinary bodies of sports associations and before arbitration courts;
- preparing any agreements related to provision of coaching services and negotiating their detailed conditions;
- comprehensive help in counteracting improper processing of personal data of athletes, protection of personal rights, counteracting discrimination;
- participation in the meetings, negotiations, trials and provision of legal advices;
- consulting services and representations in the private matters of coaches) among others, in the field of family law (divorces, separations, cases connected with minor children), in the field of inheritance law (confirmation of acquisition of inheritance, cases related to the wills, inheritance divisions), criminal law (offences and crimes committed by the coaches) or civil law (signed agreements, financial liabilities, vindication of claims).
Our offer for sports clubs
The lawyer’s office provides dedicated services for sports clubs. We understand that every sports club has different needs, assumptions and has different legal and actual situation, determined, among others, by its sports discipline, situation of a given sports association, achieved sports results in recent years or financial situation, therefore, our offer is adjusted to the needs of a specific entity. Our knowledge and many years of experience let us understand the specificity of sport.
Managing partner – lawyer Michał Matuszak is a Doctor of Juridical Science. He has many years of scientific and professional experience within the scope of sports law. He is an author of a doctoral dissertation entitled „Sports employment agreement” and various scientific monographs about the issues of sports law. He was a lecturer during over a dozen all-Poland scientific conferences about sports law that took place, among others, in Lodz, in Warsaw, Torun, Gdynia, Cracow or Lublin.
We provide comprehensive services for the clubs. We are particularly interested in the issues related to sports contracts, protection of personal data, protection of personal rights and right to image.
THE SCOPE OF OUR LEGAL SERVICES INCLUDES PARTICULARLY:
- ongoing legal services for sports clubs, including legal services of court disputes;
- preparing lawsuits, appeals, motions and other procedural writs in the disputes filed both by the sports club and in the disputes filed against the sports club;
- consulting services in employment of athletes, preparing sports contracts, with particular emphasis on the issue of employment of foreigners;
- preparing necessary documentation for registration of sports clubs and other sports associations and any agreements necessary to ensure proper functioning of a sports club, including sponsorship and advertising contracts;
- preparing comprehensive legal opinions concerning particularly the issue of employment of athletes, coaches, activists, members of the board and supervisory board, protection of personal data in sport, white-collar crimes, meeting licensing requirements, options of organization of mass events, protection of club’s image and its personal rights, including as a result of false statements, contents of press articles or materials posted on social networking sites, discrimination and pursuing any civil law claims;
- representing sports clubs before the common courts of law of all instances, before the administrative courts and before arbitration courts;
- negotiating agreements with natural and legal persons;
- consulting services within the scope of fulfilling the duty related to protection of personal data in sport by the sports club.
Our offer for Polish sports associations
The lawyer’s office provides dedicated services for sports associations, including Polish sports associations. Many years of our experience allows us to provide ongoing legal services for these entities, particularly in the field of labour law, protection of personal data and agreements concluded by the sports associations. Our knowledge and many years of experience let us understand the specificity of sport and obligations of Polish sports associations.
We give advices within the scope of possibility of granting the status of Polish sports association by the sports associations and represent associations in all proceedings, including administrative proceedings before the Ministry of Sport and Tourism. We represent entities in all proceedings before the common courts of law and administrative courts and in amicable proceedings. We provide ongoing legal services.
THE SCOPE OF OUR LEGAL SERVICES INCLUDES PARTICULARLY:
- ongoing legal services for sports associations, including legal services of court disputes;
- preparing lawsuits, appeals, motions and other procedural writs in the disputes filed both by the sports association and in the disputes filed against association;
- preparing answers for letters, motions to make public information available and other correspondence sent to sports associations;
- preparing comprehensive legal opinions concerning particularly the issue of employment of athletes, coaches, activists, members of the board and supervisory board, protection of personal data in sport, white-collar crimes, meeting licensing requirements, options of organization of mass events, protection of club’s image and its personal rights, including as a result of false statements, contents of press articles or materials posted on social networking sites, discrimination and pursuing any civil law claims;
giving legal advices and counsels; - consulting services in the field of corporate documentation, including service of general meetings or meetings of the boards.
Our offer for sports facilities
We cooperate with the owners, administrators and local government and state authorities within the scope of legal services for sports facilities. We have a dedicated offer both for smaller facilities – gyms, swimming pools, training centres, and for larger facilities such as athletics stadiums.
We support entrepreneurs during all stages of fulfilling their dreams of having specific sports facility regardless of selected sports discipline, as well as those who develop infrastructural network of activity. We provide ongoing legal services for such entities, we prepare registration documents, motions to state bodies and give legal advices concerning this activity.
We particularly prepare any agreements concluded by the entities managing sports facilities, including agreements with employees and coaches, agreements with clients and sports agreements.
We provide assistance during negotiations and court trials. We prepare any procedural writs, including lawsuits, appeals or security requests.
We conducts comprehensive legal audits (due dilligence) of sports facilities.
Our offer: organization of mass events
The lawyer’s office has experience in advising in organization of mass events. We realize how comprehensive and complicated process is proper organization of a mass event, particularly high-risk event. For people who organize such events, the lawyer’s office has created a unique offer of support during all stages of their organization. Our specialty is organization of sports mass event.
Our services focus mainly on preparation of documentation, including motion to give a permission to organize mass event meeting basic obligations of an organizer of a mass event, including those contained in sanitary, fire or construction regulations. Our services include participation of event safety personnel and information services, regulation of the issue of medical aid, determination of evacuation routes, conditions of establishing contact or allotting rooms for services securing mass event.
The lawyer’s office prepares comprehensive legal opinions in particular aspects of organization of mass events and represents entities before the common courts of law of all instances, administrative courts and in other proceedings before state bodies.
We also provide ongoing court services for entities organizing mass events.